Chapter 12: Escape to the Harbor
John watched in disbelief as my wounds healed, and as he collapsed in front of me, he muttered, "You're a monster, you're a monster!" ”
John really didn't blink to death, and he didn't know why it was until he died, so he went to another world with questions.
John's body also condensed the same air mass, which merged with me, and the wound healed faster, and his strength was restored.
At this time, Anne has fallen in a pool of blood, Alice came from a cry of extreme sadness, I pounced, tears have been unstoppable, although I and Anne have only been together for half a month, but her meticulous care, so that we establish a mother-and-child-like emotion, watching her fall to the ground weakly, a great pain in my heart, I also "woo" crying, the whole world seems to have fallen into a sad atmosphere.
Perhaps hearing our cries, Anne woke up and said in a faint voice, "Mark, Mark" reaching out to touch me.
I grabbed Anne's cold hands and said sadly: "I hurt you, I hurt you, I will send you to the hospital, it will be cured, it will be fine." ”
Anne gasped twice and said, "Don't be like this, child, I know I can't do it, you must promise me one thing." ”
Tears blurred my vision, and I could only nod.
Anne reluctantly said intermittently: "Alice is like my daughter, you want her to live a normal and happy life, let her be happy and promise me"
I clasped Anne's hand and put it on my cheek, and I replied, "I promise, I promise, I can do it." ”
Anne's kind gaze lingered on Alice for five or six seconds, and Alice took off her blood-stained white veil and cried out, "Mother! Don't go! ”
Hearing Alice call her that, the corners of Anne's mouth twitched slightly, and she wanted to smile and show us, but she still didn't do it, and finally passed away.
For the first time, I knew what it was like to be sad, and I wiped away my tears, and I looked at Alice, and she looked at me too, and saw a fair and immaculate face with tear stains, a straight and small nose, a pair of plump pink lips like fresh strawberries underneath, and tears shining in the eyes, and the moonlight shining through the window, shining on the hair of the black waterfall, like a poignant picture.
The second time I felt that Alice had a deep attraction to me, a dreamy magnetism.
Looking at the blood-red body all over the ground, she exuded a strange beauty, but it looked even more pitiful, which made her feel the urge to take her into her arms and comfort her.
Perhaps this mutual gaze was not destined to last long, and my brain quickly returned to thinking and asked Alice, "Is there gas here?" ”
Alice asked rhetorically, "What are you going to do?" ”
I said firmly, "Burn this place, I have to do this, Alice, you come with me." ”
As I spoke, I picked up the pistol on the ground, I picked up the gloves that Alice had been carrying, and put them on my hands, although they were a little small, but they could barely be brought in, I don't know when the hand of death would work, but I couldn't let it take Alice's life again.
Then I helped Alice up, and she seemed to have no strength to cry, and I helped her to the church hall, and Alice said, "There may be gasoline in the basement of the church, and it was left by the godfather before he died, and he had a car at the time." ”
I explained, "If there are any clothes that you can change, you can look for them." ”
In the basement just around the corner of the room, there was a small wooden door, and after walking through a passage 10 meters long, two meters wide in the passage, I fired a shot at the wall, and the bullet sparked on the wall, revealing that the location of the basement switch was on the left side of the path.
As soon as I pressed the switch, the basement was bright, and it seemed that this place did not affect the place when I was under the curse with Alice just now, but I saw a rain cloth in front of me, and when I opened it, it was a new eight-story Jeep black Porsche (Cayenne S), and the front of the car opened out of the basement door.
This church is full of hidden surprises, who built it?
I boarded the car to see if it could start, and found that in addition to some power insufficiency, the gasoline was also full and could be started.
I saw a lighter on the windshield and picked it up.
When I got out of the car, I saw six gasoline barrels on the ground, I carried two barrels and walked up, the church was mostly wooden furniture, I sprinkled gasoline on the first floor, when the two barrels of gasoline ran out, Alice took a few clothes from upstairs, took out two, and then coughed and said to me: "This is what the godfather used to wear, you will have to change it in a while." ”
I looked down at the already tattered clothes covered in blood, I nodded, and apologized, "The smell of gasoline is too strong, the basement is still fine, I'll go down with you first." ”
Alice looked around the church hall with nostalgia, and for a moment sadness came from it, tears flowed down, I walked over, she threw herself into my arms and pillowed her head on my shoulder and cried, I wanted to pat her shoulder with my hand to comfort her, my hand rose and fell, I did not dare to touch her, although I was still very taboo with gloves.
The crying stopped, and Alice looked up to me with a beautiful pretty face and said, "Will I live a normal life?" ”
With a resolute glint in my eyes, I comforted, "Yes, I will." ”
I took Alice to the basement and told her to get in the car and sit down, and I took two more gasoline cans, and after spilling another one and a half barrels of gasoline in various corners of the church floor, I spilled the remaining half bucket down the aisle into the basement, just in time to run out.
I put down the gasoline can, and when I turned around, I saw that Alice was changing clothes, with a snow-white straight back, a slender waist posture that was not in a hand, and slender and plump legs. ”
Before Alice could turn around, my face was feverish, and I immediately turned around, and said with a red face: "Why don't you change your clothes in the car?" ”
Alice explained: "It's inconvenient to change in the car and come out, why did you turn around?" ”
Suddenly, it turns out that Alice may have grown up in a closed environment, and the big abnormal people who have lived may not know some common sense of life and the details that should be paid attention to, this kind of thing is also very troublesome to explain, for fear of causing many misunderstandings, maybe she will understand a little bit when she takes her to normal society, so she has to say: "Did you change your clothes?" I want to get on the bus after changing. ”
At the same time, I turned around, disappointed, and saw Alice change her clothes and said to me, "I'm done, I'll go to the car." ”
What was I thinking, how could I have that kind of thought in my heart? Damn, shit!
Cursing to myself, I opened one of the remaining buckets of gasoline and placed it at the main switch in the basement where the wires were attached, and the other bucket I poured at the foot of my car door, and the gasoline connected to the whole barrel of gasoline, and when everything was arranged, Alice was already sitting at the car's assistant.
I walked to the front of the car and opened the door, the sky outside was already dark with moonlight, and the sky was slightly bright, and the estimated time was between four or five o'clock in the morning.
Starting the car, the engine shook for a while, and I looked at Alice and said to her, "It's time to go." ”
Alice nodded silently, I lit the lighter, threw it under the car, a string of fire snakes sprang up on the ground, and at the same time the car drove out, Porsche drove out from the east side of the cemetery in the back mountain, at this time the church behind was already a fire, in the Porsche looked back at the church that was getting farther and farther away from us, and tears flowed out again.
I silently said in my heart, "Anne, don't worry, I will definitely take care of Alice." ”
The church was on fire for a while, as if roaring to the heavens, and an explosion was heard, turning the blood of the previous night into ashes
Because of the means of transportation, I did not choose Philadelphia, but kept going south, straight to Atlantic City, which is more than 200 kilometers away from New York, the famous beach casino in the United States, and in less than 10 years became a strong competitor of Las Vegas, and there is a great tendency for latecomers to prevail. The city is located in the densely populated eastern region, just a 2-hour drive from New York.
There are more than 40 casino hotels concentrated on the Corniche. The most famous building is the "Taj Maha", a 43-storey main building that is majestic in brown and red, topped by an Islamic mosque-like minaret adorned with glittering artificial gemstones. The $800 million behemoth, which explores Arabic style and modern architecture, has everything from gambling, recreation, entertainment, lodging, and food to the table. There are 7,000 slot machines and 250 large roulette tables in the entire casino.
In less than three hours, I drove into Atlantic City, where the casino buildings are distinctive, and it seems very deserted during the day, there are not many pedestrians on the streets, and the real excitement here is at night, when Alice has experienced a storm and her eyes are closed and she has fallen asleep.
With a sad heart, looking at the indifferent and towering buildings, how long will the days of escape be?